I see why psychology tests are considered quackery so much. Being anti-social, or just not interested in other people’s life is not being autistic.
This test is repeatedly asking just two questions:
- Do you like numbers, the same way Hollywood likes to paint autistic people.
- Do you like talking to other people?
A test like that can only ever be a first indication. If you score high on this, it doesn’t mean you’re autistic. It just means you might want to talk to a mental health professional.
Sadly humans always want to boil things down to simple metrics (or maybe we just like numbers… wait a minute!) and people can’t be bothered to do the hard part after getting the number. The classic example is IQ tests, which just measure how good you are at that particular quiz (despite certain people obsessing over them like the number is your IRL intelligence stat).
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Lots of numbers have their own Wikipedia page (example) even the ones which aren’t also historical years.
Criticism of psychology tests aside (which is totally valid), do also note that this one is based on the work of Simon Baron-Cohen, whose theories on autism have been proven wrong one after another and miseducated a generation of psychologists.
Someone didn’t like their result and responded by being super autistic about it.
https://psychology-tools.com/test/autism-spectrum-quotient for people too lazy to type.
44/50
Ugh, why do I see your comments after I typed it. You are the hero we need.
- When I was young, I used to enjoy playing games involving pretending with other children.
Well my favourite activity is D&D, so forget the “when I was young” part
The question is about kids on purpose because children play games of pretend differently than how adults play D&D. You can be VERY autistic and find D&D to be rewarding because it’s not JUST about collaborative imagination.
I got a 30/50.
28/50
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Though, I had to put in semi random answers several times because the statements were not applicable. Some examples:
- I find social situations easy.
I do find them easy. I just hate them most of the time and try to avoid them.
- I would rather go to a library than to a party.
Definitely the library over the party. Though, I’d rather cut myself between the fingers with paper than go to a library. What century is this test from? We have the internet!
- I find it hard to make new friends.
Making friends is super easy. Keeping them is what requires effort which I’m not willing to invest most of the time. And I stopped making new friends, not because I couldn’t, but because I didn’t see the point.
- I frequently find that I don’t know how to keep a conversation going.
I frequently find that I don’t want to keep a conversation going.
- I don’t usually notice small changes in a situation or a person’s appearance.
Those are two very different things. I notice the tiniest of changes in “social” situations but am ignorant to changes in outer appearance or decoration that many would consider major. It took me like half an hour, after being prompted about a change, to figure out that an entire wall in a room changed from white to red …
- I find it easy to work out what someone is thinking or feeling just by looking at their face.
Reading emotions is easy. Telepathy/mind reading is proven to not exist.
- I am good at social chitchat.
I am. But I hate it and avoid it unless I see a clear benefit from enduring it.
- I find it difficult to imagine what it would be like to be someone else.
If anybody thinks they can really imagine what it would be like to be another (existing) person, they are delusional. Even getting a crude approximation right would be mere coincidence.
I can imagine a million fictions of what I could be.
- I find it very easy to play games with children that involve pretending.
I assume I’d have no trouble with it if I set my mind to it. But why would I want to?
Whatever score you got, it probably wasn’t high enough.
There should be an option for: “I’m to autistic to take this test.”
Fuck that, I’m not autistic! As long as I’m not tested positive, I’m not. I wasn’t, and I’m not going to be. I can be an exceptional software engineer with a direct wire to God without being autistic or otherwise crazy. And I’ll have no glow-in-the-dark shrink say otherwise!
For spending the time to write this entire spiel out, you should have 5 points added to your score.
Not to say I don’t agree with every single point you made.
I got 21 but feel the same as the examples you gave. I’m very good at “putting on a show” when it comes to socialising - I can easily be the life and soul of the party but it is so fucking draining.
Considering amount of arguments you made - you are autistic! 😅
Exactly, the difference between easy technically / exhausting emotionally is what comes to mind.
There are separate questions for enjoying social chitchat and occasions, and being good at them. So you can agree with being good at them, and disagree with enjoying them.
It asked far too little about trains, Rome, and the color blue. 3/50
“Do people joke about you being a walking Wikipedia?”
32/50. I’ve undergone an official diagnosis test and it came back negative. Don’t put too much stock in this online quiz - it’s not a substitute for real doctors.
Got 31/50. I know than I am different from friends and colleagues. I know that I excel in certain things and I do NOT in other things.
I am kinda enjoying of who I am. It feels like I trained myself to be social person. A lot of people around me simply likes me for being myself.
Haven’t done any official diagnosis, but I also do not give a shit anyway… 🙆
28/50
Average, as everything I ever tried LMAO
That one got me a 24/50, so not really… but this one…
https://psychology-tools.com/test/raads-14
Your score was 20 out of a possible 42. Scores of 14 and above are considered indicative of an Autism Spectrum Disorder.
That one has “and when I was younger” which fits me better. I’ve adapted A LOT as I grew up.
Just tried it, got 21/42. I’m with you, I’ve adapted a lot as I’ve grown up. Still have plenty of weird sensory issues but I’ve come up with ways to cope or avoid them instead of having them drive me insane
36/50 and that’s without asking about textures, sensory overload, and my reluctance to make eye contact.
I am fascinated by dates.
Dates are a very fascinating fruit indeed.
34/50 oh well, moving on
The phrasing of the questions is why I don’t trust it to diagnose me. I wish I could ask a human being giving the test “what does that mean? Like, I think coincidences are neat, but I don’t like have them marked on calendars and stuff.”
But then, I do have a notation cheat sheet on my phone that lists the names of every order of magnitude between 10^2 (one hundred) to 10^102 (one trestrigintillion), just so I don’t have to do any mental math to figure out what something like 10^12 is in word terms (it’s one trillion). I realize that is far from a normal people thing to do, but is it autism, ADD, ADHD, Asperger’s? I wish I could afford a real diagnosis so I could find a chemical that would make my brain act normal
- Hah, same as my age.
35/50
What’s up neurobuddies! I’m posting a daily question from the short version of this test on the lemmy.world autism community. Come and complain about ambiguously worded questions at Let’s Play AQ-10.
I got a high score of 40/42… Why are basically all the the things true? Like they are specific to my day to day.
12/50 damn i thought i was more on the edge. I guess it’s add only, reassuring.
20/50
Apparently other disorders (like depression, anxiety, ADHD) can show up on this test too though XD
